The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-02
NEWS Or THE NATION.
An Adverse Report on the
Logan Pension.
THE WALT WHITMAN PENSION.
Hawaiian r. ciprociIy Treaty
Mint Matters-Other FOfhIs.
News of the Nation.


WASHINGTON, February 1-Senator
Michel (OregOn) to-day submitted an
elaborate report from the co'umIttee on
transportation route to the seaboards.
declaring Its belief that the Interest OF
the people of the Pacific northwest
lmperauvely demand speedy cumpe--
tIon Uf the work at the mouth of the
Columbia Canal and the locks upon the
cascades of the Columbia RIVER, aud IL
IS recommended that a liberal annual
appropriation be made therefor, and
that the work of constructing the coast
railway around the Dalle~ and Chic
Falls of the Culumb River, and oil
blasting open the ,ntracIed waterways
at Ten and Three Mile Rapids to a
width of 300 feet, so as to secure
naVigable water, should be en-
tered upon without delay by the
United States government, and your
committee, therefore, recommends that
1t be done without further preliminary
survey or report and that an appro-
present session of Congress for such
purpose. ~ @
The Secretary of the Treasury to d ~
transmitted to the Sneaker of the
House of Representatives the answer by
THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT
to the House resolution relating to
silver coinage. The Director presents !
table from which it appears that the
cost of the amount of bullion delivered
on monthly purchases during the past
fiscal year was $24 1873 ,OU2; of the face
value of coinage $50, 1873 905. During |
the first six months of the current
fiscal year the cost of the monthly pur- |
chase OF bullion was $l35 ,4S4 ,403. and |
coinage $l5, $50 361. In only one month |
(July, 1850 did the coinage TALL below !
~ UOU O0O. In that month the total |
cost OF the purchase deliI cred was
81 51S,614, from which the coinage was
81 9OU 600. The Director saws it will De
seen from the table that the law has
been complied with during the past
fiscal year, as we'll as the remaining
months of the calendar year 1886.
In repoltng .faVorably the bill to
PENSION WALT WHITMAN
at the rate of $25 per month, the House
committee on invalid pensions, says the
poet dedicated himself during the war
to unceasing care as volunteer nurse
of our sick and wounded soldiers, and
his almost devotional ministrations
were well known to the citizens of
Washington and of the nation. In the
adverse report upon the Senate bill
granting
PENSION TO MRS. LOGAN,
the committee on INVALID pensions of
the House say that should Congress pass
the bill, and the precedent set by it
should be carried out, it would increase
the pension rolls $34 ,0o0.U00 annually. |
In majority of the eases, as in this
case, no relief from actual embarrass- |
ment of poverty would be afforded. 1t !
was we'll known that a thousand poor |
and aged widows of brave and worthy |
soldiers were denied a pension OF $l2 |
Ter month because of their inability to |
connect sLhe death of their husbands
with their military service. In THIS case, |
no sort of claim was advanced that the |
death of General Logan WAS attributed /
10 his military service. Il was well
knC VIII fact Mrs. Logan was in posses
sion of an ample estate, and while the
committee entertained the highest re-
gard for her, both on account of her
high character aud personal worth, as
we'll as on account of the brave and gal
Iant record of General Logan as a
civilian, statesman and soldier, and his
useful and spotless record, they believe
that the passage of this and all similar
bills would be In the direction of
building UP in this country an
contrary to the best princi-
Piles of an equal government for all, for
which General Logan so gallantly.
fought in the'war and so ably commended
for in times of peace.
a similar report was presented IN the
case of the Senate bill to increase the
pension to the willow of General Frank
P. Blair. The Republican members of
The committee presented a minority
report, earnestly recommending the pas
sage of the bill to pension Mrs. Logan
The report recites the brilliant career of I
General Logan and says that it is
certain that his death was
5he direct result of his military service
and that his transcending achievements
we're voluntary contributors OF his
splendid military genius, inspired by
of duty and patriotic i'm
pulses, seldom eqUaled and never ex-
2elled.
THE PRESIDENT
to-day, sent the following message to
to the House:
To the House Of Represen 'atiUeS:
In response to a resolution Of the House
Of Representatives adopted on the I'D ult,,
calling upon me for copy OF the treaty or
convention proposed to the Senate aud rati-
fed by that body, sstween the Uni ed States
md the governments of the Hawaiian Is
a1Ss," I transmit herewith the report OF
he Secretary of State, with accompany pa
Ders It is proper to remark In TINS relation
hat no convention whatever has been
agreed to or ratified" by the President
,r Senate" as is reclted in. the preamble 10
said resolution of the House Of Represent
,tiYes; but that the documents refer ed 10
exhibiting the action of the Executive and
he Senate respectively, are communicated
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